(Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Cuba Saturday for a visit after his country's border crisis with Colombia and Ecuador was defused at a regional summit Friday. It was Chavez's first visit to Havana since Cuba's former leader Fidel Castrol handed over power to his brother Raul Castro last month. The Venezuelan president was greeted by Raul Castro at the Jose Marti airport in Havana, Cuba's official newspaper Granma reported. At the Rio Group summit in the Dominican Republic's capital Santo Domingo Friday, Chavez shook hands with his Ecuadorian and Colombian counterparts, defusing a border crisis caused by Colombia's cross-border raid on rebels last week. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe apologized for the raid on Ecuadorian soil at the Rio Group summit and dissolved the tension.